Cultivating Mindful Awareness in Yin Yoga
May our study be enlightening...
Yin Yoga is so much more than asana – it's also a platform for growth and transformation. If we want to help our students build up the inner resources to meet life's challenges, then we have to share the practices that train them up.
For many practitioners, Yin Yoga is a gateway to a rich meditation practice and deeply transformational work. In this workshop, learn the basics of mindfulness practice and how to weave these transformational methods into your classes. You'll also learn how to establish and solidify your own meditation practice.
Learning Objectives
In this 3.5hr experiential online workshop, we'll discuss and practice a variety of mindfulness methods that you can incorporate into your practice and classes.
Topics include:
- What is mindfulness and where does it come from?
- How Yin Yoga & Mindfulness enrich one another
- Overview of the three primary methods: samatha (calm abiding), vipassana (clear seeing), and metta (loving-kindness)
- Samatha in depth and techniques for developing a regular meditation practice
- How and why to bring samatha into your classes
- Getting started with vipassana
- Bringing the spirit of metta into your classes
- Additional strategies for incorporating mindfulness
Your Investment Includes:
Jennifer brings a compassionate approach and talent for making complicated material accessible and interesting. You'll get lifetime access to the following:
- 2.75hr of recorded video instruction
- 3 guided meditations and 1 guided yin practice
- Printable workshop notes and slide deck with key terms
- Recommended resources
Your Instructor
Jennifer O'Sullivan has been teaching yoga and meditation in the Washington, DC area for sixteen years after completing her first training in 2004. She has studied with exemplary yoga teachers from a number of disciplines but is most influenced by Don and Amba Stapleton of Nosara Yoga Institute and Sarah Powers. Jennifer is also greatly inspired by the mindfulness teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and Bhante Gunaratana. She is endorsed by her primary teacher Sarah Powers to teach Insight Yoga, a heart-centered approach that weaves together yoga, Taoism, Buddhism and spiritual psychology.
A teacher's teacher, Jennifer has co-led 200hr teacher trainings and she currently leads her own 50hr Foundations of Yin Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training throughout the mid-Atlantic US. She is a mentor in the Insight Yoga Institute and an assistant to Sarah Powers. You can view her complete bio at: www.sati.yoga.